IPA Tasting List Announced
Here it is, the moment you've all been waiting for. The list of beers we've got for next week's IPA tasting, on Friday the 19th. Sign up at the bar, $20 will get you 5 half pint taster tickets, and of course, you will be able to purchase additional beers after that.
Here's the list of kegs:
Russian River Blind Pig
AleSmith IPA
Port High Tide
Port Hop-15
Victory Hop Wallop
Green Flash Hop Head Red
Green Flash West Coast IPA
Firestone Union Jack IPA
Dean Brothers English IPA (CASK)
Stone 10th Anniversary
Stone 11th Anniversary
Stone Cali-Belgique (CASK!)
Stone Ruination Double IPA (CASK)
Alaskan Ice Pay
Pyramid Thunderhead
Bear Republic Racer 5
As you can see, many of these beers are very rare, and we don't expect the kegs to last through the night! If it's anything like last Friday's whisky tasting, you will not want to miss this!
Now on tap: Port Brewing High Tide Fresh Hop IPA
Fresh in from San Diego, we are currently pouring Port Brewing's High Tide IPA until the keg blows. Here's some info from the Port website:
Brewed only once each year to coincide with the Hop Harvest in Yakima Washington, High Tide IPA is made with 180 lbs of Fresh Hops per batch that are plucked from the vines and sent straight to our brewery. We skip the whole drying and processing stage which means the hops are ultra fresh and full of flavors we can't normally get. Like grapes, Hops are only harvested one time each year and as such, we make what we can when we get them.
The recipe is very simple and basic with an emphasis on the variety of hops we select each year. Lately, we have selected Centennial and Chinook hops for our High Tide IPA. We used Centennial at the end of the boil and Chinook for the Dry Hopping. Now that we have brewed High Tide, we will sit and wait for the ultra High Tides of Fall to arrive knowing full well that we have sufficient stocks of great beer to get us through the flattest of sessions. We hope you'll stock up too.
Yeast- White Labs- Port Brewing Proprietary Yeast Strains
Malts- Two Row
Kettle Hops- Amarillo Pellets
Whirlpool- Centennial Fresh Hops
Dry Hop- Chinook Fresh HopsOriginal Gravity- 1.062
Terminal Gravity- 1.012
6.50 % ABV
For a review of last year's bottled version, check out the Hot Knives writeup of High Tide Fresh Hop IPA.
